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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JoeGKushner" data-source="post: 5149091" data-attributes="member: 1129">1. Quality control. This isn't necessarily getting the best paint job or necessarily the best sculpt but making sure that figures are of at least a similiar quality to each other and that SCALE is enforced from head to toe. No one wonders if that's a fat crouching human instead of a dwarf, the goblin's head isn't bigger than another goblins' body, etc...2. Tied into existing product/product as it comes out. PHB3 just came out at least one freak race. WoTC has been slipping the minotaurs into the DM's packs for a while but those crystal suckers? Not a one there. Same problem with the Dragonborn. No one knew those were going to be in the PHB? It literarlly took like a year to get 2 non-random figures, and one of them an extremely niche? 3. Reoffering the popular figs as collectors sets: Some of the older sets had draconians, demons, devils, etc... that are still popular and could easily be put into themed packs like the beholder pack coming out. There's a huge library of figures and not using that is baffling.4. Legends pack. Drizzt was one of the most expensive figures for its time. Taking characters out of the new york times best sellers list and making figures out of them as opposed to generic figures? Go specific and if the sculpts are good enough, people will want to use them for their own characters anyway.5. If using visible figures, let the retailers tell you which ones they want as opposed to suffering a random order. I don't have a ton of gaming stores around me, but they all discounted the grey dappled pony, I mean unicorn. It'll be a great way to insure that whoever screws up the visibles the first time isn't the same person making the selections the next time.6. Stop explaining why things can't be done. Stop talking about lead time. Stop talking about bad sculpts. Stop talking about the steps in the process. This is WoTC, not Bob's Friendly Figures. Some of the figures from the Heroscape line are of much more intricate detail and use and were cheaper. Just stop. If it's a question that keeps coming up the head of the department needs to find out WHY is can't be done.7. Dungeon boardgame. Why WoTC hasn't done this old boardgame with prepainted plastics, or even plastics that aren't painted, is beyond me. For god's sake, there was an old version of Dungeon with Ral Partha figures in it. This should be a no-brainer, especially if they're willing to go the $60+ route as they are with the Ravenloft game.I'm sure there are some other things I'm missing but those are the things I'd focus on as head of the line.</blockquote>

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